It’s about time

Lawmakers across the southeast are scrambling to remove the Confederate battle flag from capitol grounds and automobile tags, all motivated by a bigoted young white man’s hateful murders of nine black persons who had met to study the Bible and pray at...

Protecting Your Church in Charleston Aftermath

Through the actions of one reprehensible person, our nation has been reminded that evil is alive and well. Understandably, this unconscionable act of killing nine people during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina,...

S.C. Undermines Immigrants’ Right to Feel Safe

Santos is a fifth-grader at my school. When he was in second grade, he was in my classroom for the first half of the school year. His parents are migrant workers, so when the spring, summer and fall work on South Carolina farms slows and stops with the winter winds,...

Baptist Attacks Fail on Candidate’s Religion

Nikki Haley easily captured the Republican nomination for South Carolina governor on June 22 after facing weeks of personal attacks, including questions about her conversion to Christianity. Several Baptists in the state joined other conservatives in stirring up...